Food for Thought

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."


"The deepest wound of toxic shame is the inability to develop meaningful, intimate, human relations."

John Bradshaw


"Ignoring or denying physical needs erodes our emotional health. Ignoring that we're cold or denying ourselves water when we're thirsty or rest when we're tired sends an express letter to our selves that we aren't important enough to get our basic survival needs met. On the other hand, taking good care of ourselves is incredibly strengthening and promotes intactness."

Anne Katherine


"Courage means daring to let your true self be known and be vulnerable. When you dare to let your true self out, you become alive and whole in your own eyes and the eyes of others."


"Courage enables you to turn crises into opportunities, problems into possibilities. Look at situations in terms of solutions and actions rather than dangers and threats."


"Full surrender means that we live with an attitude of unlimited obedience."

Joseph M. Stowell


"Success is not defined by position or pay scale but by this: doing the most what you do the best."

Max Lucado


"In a desire to be great, one might cease being any good."

Max Lucado


"Use your uniqueness to take great risks for God."

Max Lucado


"The only mistake is not to risk making one."

Max Lucado


"God grants us uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one."

Max Lucado


"Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that he offers to help."

Max Lucado


"Don't see yourself as a product of your parents' DNA, but rather as a brand-new idea from heaven."

M. Lucado


"When it is dark enough, men see stars."

Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."

William Barclay


"If you always do
What you've always done
You'll always be
What you've always been."

Josh McDowell